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DIFFERENT POWER PLANTS IN THE PHILIPPINES

HYDROELECTRIC
1. Angat Hydroelectric Power Plant
Angat Hydroelectric Plant operates as a hydroelectric
power plant in San Lorenzo. The company also has a
reservoir. Angat Hydroelectric Plant was founded in 1967
and is based in Norzagaray, the Philippines. Angat
Hydroelectric Plant operates as a subsidiary of National
Power Corporation. As of now Angat Hydroelectric Plant
is fully operational and can supply of 256 MW.
2. Kalayaan Power Plant
The Plant consists of the construction of the new
Kalayaan PSP Stage II with a capacity of 2x185 MW reversible pumping/generating units. The
rehabilitation of the two existing Caliraya and Botocan hydropower plant of 32 MW and 20 MW,
respectively, is also included in the frame of the CBK project.
The Kalayaan pumped storage plant is the first of this type in the Philippines, built to provide much
needed peak power capacity to the Luzon electric grid.
The Project makes
use of the head available between the upper Caliraya
reservoir, of 83 million m3 capacity, built in the 40's to
feed a traditional hydropower plant, and Laguna de Bay,
a huge natural lagoon of brackish water. The first stage, commissioned
in 1983, is equipped with two 150 MW reversible units. This
project will realize the second stage, constituted by a new penstock
and powerhouse, as well as associated structures.
3. Pantabangan-Masiway Hyproelectric Plant
The 100 MW Pantabangan Hydro electric Power Plant is
MW turbine-generating units. The plant harnesses the
the stored water inside the Pantabangan Reservoir, the
largest water reservoir in the Philippines in terms of
storage capacity, and converted it into electricity. The
construction of power plant facility was officially started
on Jan. 21, 1974 and inaugurated by, then, President
Ferdinand Marcos on June 19, 1977. The Plant was built
at a cost of Php241.4 Million. It is located at Brgy.
Fatima, Pantabangan, Nueva Ecija, 180 Km North of
Manila.

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4. Ferdinand L. Singit in Bakun, Benguet

The Upper Takbo was built in 1991 but was renamed Ferdinand L. Singit Hydro or
FLS Hydro in 1996 in memory of its late plant engineer. The construction of the
FLS Hydro was an engineering challenge since there were no roads anywhere
near the plant. Among Hedcors 19 plants, FLS Hydro has the longest
conveyance line of about 3 kilometers. Initially it had a capacity of 4 MW and
was upgraded in 1993 to produce its current capacity of 5.9 MW. This translates
into about 27 million kWh annually for the NPC and BENECO.

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GEOTHERMAL
1. Malitbog Geothermal Power Station
is a 232.5 MW geothermal power plant and is the world's largest geothermal power plant under one
roof located inMalitbog, Kananga, Leyte, Philippines.
Formerly owned and operated by the California Energy under a build-operate-transfer scheme
known as CE Luzon. In 2007 it was transferred to PNOC -EDC and since 2009 it is owned and
operated privately by the Energy Development Corporation.
2. Mak-Ban Geothermal Plant in Laguna
Mak-Ban all in all has 6 plants: Plants A and B with two 63-MW units each, Plant C with two 55-MW
units, Plants D and E with two 20-MW units each, and a binary plant with five 3-MW and one 0.73MW units.
The power plant was first commissioned in 1979 and used to be under the Napocor. But because of
the power generation assets privatization effort of the government, Mak-Ban and Tiwi were both
auctioned off as a single package in 2008. AP Renewables, Inc., a subsidiary of Aboitiz Power
Corporation, won that bid.
Solar
1. CEPALCO
Cagayan Electric Power and Light Company Inc. in Cagayan de Oro, Misamis Oriental is the largest
solar power plant in Southeast Asia. The photovoltaic solar panels can produce a 1.1 megawatts
and can supply a 200 households, however it may vary on the consumption of households.
Wind Power
There are 3 sources of wind power in Ilocos Norte, the Bangui Wind farm in Bangui, Ilocos Norte it
uses 20 units of wind turbines that can produce a 33 megawatts. The windmills are facing the West
Philippines Sea that strenthen the supply of winds throughout the seashore. The Caparispisan Wind
Farm also in Ilocos Norte was fully operational last year(2014) and can produce 81 megawatts while
the Burgos Wind Farm has the largest supply of energy giving a 150 megawatts. The wind mills in
Ilocos Norte has a fix rate for power producers of 8.53 per kilowatthour .
Coal
1. Sual Power Station in Pangasina
Sual Power Station is a 1,200-MW coal-fired power station located near theLingayen Gulf in Sual,
Pangasinan, Philippines. Development started when Consolidated Electric Power Asia Ltd, a
subsidiary of Hopewell Holdings, bid and won a $900mn BOOT tender for a 1,000-MW power station
at Sual. Site preparation began in 1995 and construction started in February 1996.
2. Pagbilao Power Station
The two-unit, 735-MW Pagbilao coal-fired power plant was completed in 1996. The plant is owned
by
Team
Energy,
a
joint
venture
of
Japanese
companies Tokyo
Electric
Power
Company and Marubeni Corporation.
3. Masinloc Coal-Fired
In April 2008, AES expanded into the Philippines, completing the $930 million purchase and transfer
of assets of the 600 MW (gross) Masinloc Coal-fired Thermal Power Plant, now Masinloc Power
Partners Co. Ltd., located in Zambales Province in Luzon.
Nuclear
Bataan Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant, completed but never fueled, on Bataan
Peninsula, 100 kilometres (62 mi) west of Manila in thePhilippines. It is located on a 3.57 square
kilometre government reservation at Napot Point in Morong, Bataan. It was the Philippines' only
attempt at building a nuclear power plant.

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